General discussion for aviators

Glass cockpit hard to read

Hello,

I am computer scientist and usually really like fancy technology. But
I just had my first flight with a "glass" PFD (Avidyne) and must say I
am not impressed. In particular reading altitude and airpeed from
these scrolling bands requires a lot more attention than with regular
gauges, just like reading a digital clock takes longer than reading an
analog one. Glancing at it and checking against a known picture, like
"speed at 3 o’clock is fine on final" or "altitude at 20 minutes past
midnight is minimum", just does not work anymore, instead I end up
reading the actual numbers every time I look. Does anyone feel the
same? Am I missing a particular technique?

Arno

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Commentary on UAL Pilots' Whining and Bellyaching

I presented a brain teaser of sorts to my friend who had been a
professional football player and coach.

I asked: "What would you say of a football coach who recruited (within
constraints) less than the best players for his team?"

Well, my friend simply couldn’t fathom this. He kept repeating: "You
don’t understand; it just doesn’t work this way, it just doesn’t work
this way," even though I kept repeating: "But what if, what if?"

Finally I put an end to this back-and-forth banter by saying:
"Wouldn’t you say that the coach who recruits less than the best
players is stupid?…  Or incompetent?… How about dishonest? Maybe
the coach is working angles that are just inconceivable to you? Or how
about insane?… perhaps the coach is just plain insane."

Well, my friend settled down and got the picture that I was trying to
present.

Then I said: "Hold these thoughts!

"Now consider the business manager who kowtows to political
correctness under government enforced equality and who is tolerant of
having less than the best/top-choice subordinates on his work team.
Wouldn’t you say that this manager – like the coach above – is
stupid… incompetent… dishonest… or just plain insane."

So now my friend got the point. I could tell by how his face froze
with his eyes bugging out.

NOBODY HAS STOPPED TO THINK ABOUT THE CONSEQUENCES OF EQUALITY BEYOND
THE RANK OBVIOUS. They never considered the personality/psychological
traits of managers and executives who would percolate to the top of
the business heap under the highly illogical and dysfunctional systems
of equal employment opportunity, affirmative action, and equal housing
opportunity.

Oh, you have great dishonesty amongst such managers and executives,
and several facets of such dishonesty are selfishness, self-
centeredness, and, most of all, GREED… and out of such greed comes
an emphasis on cheap, cheap labor and DISLOYALTY. Why, such business
managers will stab both Whites and blacks in the back EQUALLY by
forsaking them both by eliminating their jobs domestically and off-
shoring those jobs to East Indians, Chinese, Mexicans and the like.
And those jobs that can’t be exported are turned over to illegal
immigrants who are aided and abetted by some of the foremost American
corporations and their legit and illegit lobbying efforts.

Furthermore, out of such greed comes corporate accounting scandals,
and let me tell you that the stories of Enron, Adelphia and Tyco
represent just the tip of the iceberg of what we know. Gadzooks about
the accounting scandals that are yet to be revealed.

Just this day, there was a full-page newspaper ad taken out by the
pilots’ union representing pilots at United Airlines about how
callously indifferent United’s management has been to its workers’
sacrifices, downwardly equalized wages, and slave-like working
conditions WHILE THESE SAME MANAGERS ARE MAKING OUT LIKE BANDITS WITH
PAY RAISES AND OTHER PERKS!

Note: in my Economics treatise, I explained how wages and benefits,
under government enforced equality would be downwardly equalized to
the perceived value of the least preferred job candidate (within job
category) per the perception of value of the lowest bidding employer.
We are now seeing such things beyond a shadow of a doubt at United
Airlines and at a whole host of other employers throughout our
American economy.

OK, back to the main topic: not only do you have dishonest managers
ascending the executive ranks, you also have stupid and insane
managers ascending the ranks as well. A firm social/psychological
dynamic is as follows: wherever there is dishonesty, moronism and
insanity will fester; wherever there are moronism and insanity,
dishonesty will fester. (Just look to the moron-of-the-day’s White
House.)

In my treatise, I stated that as the quarter-billion dollar
compensation of the company’s chief executive officer swells to one-
half-billion dollars, the sanity of the nation will be stretched to
the limit. This prediction was made well over ten years ago. Well, it
finally has come true. It was recently reported in the media that the
annual compensation of CEO Barry Diller has exceeded one-half-billion
dollars. YET THIS IS CHUMP CHANGE COMPARED TO THE TWO-BILLION DOLLAR
ANNUAL COMPENSATION PACKAGES OF TOP HEDGE FUND MANAGERS. What else
would you expect in a nation where middle class workers are being
downwardly equalized to sub-black slavery while the business head-
honchos are evolving in mega slave drivers? AND INSANITY IS AT
EPIDEMIC PROPORTIONS IN THIS COUNTRY.

On top of everything else, these stupid, dishonest and insane business
managers are teaming up with their stupid, dishonest, and insane
government counterparts to allow Mexican truckers to deliver their
hauls anywhere in the United States while having you believe that
there will be cost savings under this system that will be passed on to
you. (Now, now, don’t believe me when I assert that the cost savings
will go right into the pockets of billionaire business men, NOT
YOURS!)

OK, folks, this is all for now. (NO! SEE ADDENDUM BELOW!!!)

If you want a copy of my treatise entitled "The Downward Wage
Equalizing Effects of Equal Employment Opportunity" just send me a
request by email.

ADDENDUM

An ancient Greek philosopher once said, "Show me a society with lots
of laws and I will show you a perverse society, indeed!"

It’s true.

To illustrate, here’s an example: the Sarbanes/Oxley law which makes
the Chief Executive Officer of a corporation liable if there are
accounting shenanigans going on in his company.

Well, the business press recently reported that many high ranking
executives at major companies are turning down offers to be promoted
to the top CEO spot due to concerns about running afoul of the
Sarbanes/Oxley law.

What’s the consequence of this? Well, with so many people removing
themselves from the field of CEO candidates, to what is the field
being left? I’ll tell you: ILK WHO DON’T GIVE A FLYING YOU-KNOW-WHAT
ABOUT THE EXISTENCE OF THE SARBANES/OXLEY LAW.

When you have lots of laws in a society, these law DON’T keep people
on the up-and-up and turn them into honorable citizens. What happens
is that the best upstanding people throw their hands up in disgust and
drop out not wanting to deal with the plethora of laws. THIS LEAVES
THE FIELD TO LOW-LIVES WHO – to repeat – DON’T GIVE A FLYING YOU-KNOW-
WHAT ABOUT THE EXISTENCE OF LAWS.

To make matters much, much worse, when you have totally illogical and
foul laws in the mix – like equality laws which FORCE equality where
there is obviously NONE – then… well, you should be able to draw
your own correct conclusion by now, which should be that only
dishonest, stupid, and/or insane people will rise to the top echelons
of society.

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Force feedback versus real piloting?

Recently I was at a local airport talking to some pilots. One of
them (obviously a real pilot) said that doing a simulator with a
force feedback joystick and then flying a plane made for a smooth
transition.

I’m not a pilot so I didn’t argue with that, but I was thinking
"huh?"

Isn’t the general consensus here that force feedback is unrealistic?
Maybe I’ve read the wrong threads or those comments were from non-
pilots?

Partly curious, thanks.


I also posted this to a different group. I realize the force
feedback part is not necessarily for piloting, but the piloting part
is.

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People…

For those of you who exist in the clarified, rarified world of upper-
echelon corporate life, or hang out with pilots all day, it’s hard to
remember the wide range of human behaviors that exist.   I, too, once
existed there, and clearly remember walking the halls of the Fortune
500 company, finding it easy to believe that the whole world was
populated by intelligent, hard-driving "doers".

When you run a hotel, however, you see the entire panoply of the human
experience, often in the same day.  Over time you realize that the
world is split unevenly between "doers" and "takers", and it’s
sometimes hard to tell which side is winning.  After a day like
yesterday it’s hard to even believe that we’ve lumped so many
different creatures under the one title "homo sapiens".

On Saturday we:

- Hosted a gathering of Swearingen SX-300 pilots in our Jack Knight
Meeting Room.  These top-notch pilots held a seminar on formation
flying, and then spent the day thrilling the city with formation over-
flights.  They’re doing it again as I’m typing this.  (If you’re not
familiar with the SX-300, I suggest doing a web search.  It is about
the coolest single engine plane out there.)

- Dealt with a couple of Wayne’s World look-alikes, who — at 11 AM —
staggered into the lobby so stoned they couldn’t feel their feet,
looking for a suite.  Mary took one look at them, loudly pronounced
what she was smelling in their presence, and told them to hit the
bricks….

- Took a call from a former guest who — a week ago — claimed to have
tripped and fell entering the Mustang Suite.  She has supposedly gone
to a chiropractor three times, and is threatening to sue us if we
don’t compensate her in some way.

All of this happened between 11 AM and 1 PM.  Call it "The Good, The
Bad, and The Ugly".

Next time you’re sitting at your big desk in your corner office,
gazing over the city whilst sipping your third latte of the day and
sweating your stock options, try to remember that the real world is
just beyond the smoked glass…

;-)

Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

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